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Data Science · LLM Engineering · AI Agents · Information Retrieval
I build with large language models and write about how they actually work: embeddings, retrieval, the architectures underneath. Beyond the profession I read widely in linguistics, philosophy, and the natural sciences, and that tends to leak into the writing.
Writing
interpretability
Reading and editing what language models represent, and what that means for safety.
refusal in llms is not one thingAugust 3, 2026representational convergence
Essays on what it means for models to learn the same structure.
representational convergence is not one thing - part 2July 13, 2026representational convergence is not one thing - part 1May 20, 2026words and their mappings
Explorations of the language and technology intersection.
the llm era: from embeddings to emergenceJanuary 16, 2025journey of embeddingsDecember 5, 2024inspirations behind words and their mappingsNovember 8, 2024words and their mappings - introductionNovember 3, 2024elasticsearch
Posts about Elasticsearch.
how does elasticsearch work? - elasticsearch architecture - general overviewAugust 31, 2024